NU-Stanford series starts in 2015

Northwestern and Stanford will play home and home in football in 2015 and 2016.

Northwestern and Stanford will play home and home in football in 2015 and 2016. (Nhat V. Meyer/San Jose Mercury News)

Teddy Greenstein, Tribune reporter

Northwestern and Stanford have finalized a home-and-home football series for 2015 and 2016. The schools also will meet in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

The Wildcats get the home game on Sept. 5, 2015 and hit Palo Alto on Sept. 24, 2016.

“This was a great opportunity for Northwestern to expand on our upcoming series with Stanford and allow an exciting matchup to take place even sooner," NU athletic director Jim Phillips said in a statement. "We're thrilled about the quality of our future nonconference opponents, with schools such as Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Boston College, Syracuse, California and now Stanford. Couple that with our traditional Big Ten schedule and it is safe to say there will be plenty of exciting action in Chicago's backyard for years to come.”